Quotes About Acknowledgment

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

Each day begins with a prayer of thank you.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

I thank you for your voices, thank you,Your most sweet voices.

Lear: Dost thou know me, fellow?Kent: No, sir, but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master.Lear: What's that?Kent: Authority.

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there.

I rang them up while touring Timbucktoo,Those bosom chums to whom you're known as"Who?"

Not surprisingly, his father (who was unaware of how abusive he had been), took credit for Richard's high entrance exam scores, noting how successful his educational program had been. Richard's father's poorly controlled wounded self, which acted out sadistically toward him, was never openly acknowledged and thus both father and son were prevented from seeing how badly the father had undermined his son's sense of self.

Thank fuck!

For all that has been: Thanks! For all that shall be: Yes! —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD, Markings

It is a sign of health when we acknowledge the legitimacy of our longings.

For all that has been: Thanks. For all that shall be: Yes.

No one responds or even looks at him. It's as if he didn't say it. If an accountant says words in a kitchen and no one listens, did he make a sound?

Well, it's nice to meet you. My name is Mr. Saint Paul.

Deep down, you know you're him.

When you have no voice, you don't exist

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

If Dulles could use a person, that person was somehow real for him. If not, that person didn't exist.

On the other hand, Clairaut reported that Lepaute exhibited an "ardor" that was "surprising"—perhaps surprising to him because Lepaute was a woman; he later removed the acknowledgment of Lepaute's considerable contribution from the published text. (Much of her later work was published without attribution by other people, including her husband, France's royal clockmaker.)

John tipped a finger at him and said, "Yep. Thanks for calling us, Drake. You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.